The Basiliscoe Mercury 300

The Basiliscoe Mercury300


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Arms and armour in the news


The sharp-eyed among you will see this is the 300th Basiliscoe and you will find something to remember this by at the end.Main story is the destruction of National Museum of Brazil and much of its collections, more cheerfully cannons on the move in the UK, stories about women warriors and the V&A’s digital Leonardo.


Ancient arms and forts


Bone arrowhead from the Yukon

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arrowhead-demster-highway-archaeologist-yukon-1.4805547


Recording the siege of Lachish

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/08/Sennacherib-Siege-of-Lachish


Investigating Roman legionary bases in Bulgaria

https://www.eurasiareview.com/25082018-bulgaria-grand-armory-of-roman-legions-mystery-unveiled/


Latest thinking on the rise of Viking fortresses

http://sciencenordic.com/danish-viking-fortresses-were-designed-fend-other-vikings


Grave stories


DNA of early medieval Germanic warriors revealed

https://popular-archaeology.com/art...ed-warriors-at-a-medieval-german-burial-site/


Battlefields and castles


Update on the new Battle of Bosworth

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...car-test-track-hinckley-council-a8510261.html


What was found under Culzean Castle

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/259432/Hidden_medieval_door_to_Scottish_castle_caves_discovered


Passing the time in medieval Russian castles- nine men’s morris

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/arc...l-board-game-secret-castle-crypt-russia-62792


Through the gunloop…


Francis Drake in Virginia

http://po.st/yfkAN3


Early 17th century Native American fort in Connecticut discovered

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-archaeologists-native-american-fort-connecticut.html


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Cannon from the older HMS Victory goes on display in Portsmouth

https://www.forces.net/news/incredibly-rare-18th-century-cannon-go-display#.W5Eu1J1Aa8U.twitter


Hartlepool’s historic gun battery faces a new battle & needs help https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/li...ew-battle-and-bosses-need-your-help-1-9320695


Cannon dug up in Bangkok

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30353008

https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1528350/ancient-cannon-found-at-sanam-luang


And what happened to it

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30353271

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30353457


WW2 shell washes up in Icelandic fjord

https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2018/08/28/boys_in_east_fjords_find_live_ww_ii_shell/


A brief history of fireworks

https://www.livescience.com/63468-fireworks-history.html


Living in the past


Re-enacting in Serbia

http://artdaily.com/news/107216/The-fighting-is-real-at-Serbia-s-medieval-festival#.W4UHcjG0V9A


RecreatingNorse artefacts

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/coastal-job-experimental-archaeologist/


Café Basiliscoe: today’s special


Neolithic cheese

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/ps-eo090518.php


Miscellany

Excavating Holyrood Palace

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-45355250


Treasure trove of lost letters! This is an exciting project

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...online?CMP=share_btn_tw&page=with:img-2#img-2


Princesses and Amazons


Short feature on Boudicca

https://www.anglotopia.net/british-history/great-britons-boadicea/


Norse shield maidens

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/09/shieldmaidens-gesta-danorum/


Review of Empress by Ruby Lal

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/05/empress-ruby-lai-the-rise-and-reign-http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180826-the-legend-of-benins-fearless-female-warriors


Looking for the forgotten nurses of WWI

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-memories-of-forgotten-first-world-war-nurses


Into the 20th century


Battle of Britain collections in the UK

https://museumcrush.org/britains-best-places-to-see-battle-of-britain-museums-and-collections/


Nautical news


Øsknes: rethinking Viking boat burials

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-csi-tromsowhere-forensics-vikings.html


Saving the Mary Rose

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-preserve-a-shipwreck


Vasa cannon found?

https://www.thelocal.se/20180828/the-vasa-ship-missing-cannon-may-have-been-found-stockholm


More on the Beeswax wreck

https://crosscut.com/2018/08/researchers-uncover-northwest-secrets-spanish-shipwreck


Feature about HMS Endeavour, colonial history and natural history

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/hms-endeavour-250.html


Tin cans not to blame for the demise of the Franklin expedition- phew

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...terious-demise-franklin-expedition-180970150/


Update on Canada’s plans for the Franklin ships

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...secrets-of-franklin-expedition-shipwreck.html


Whaling shipwreck found in the Canadian artic

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releas...g-wreck-in-canadas-high-arctic-692655611.html


WW2 USS Abner Read found off Alaska

http://uk.businessinsider.com/noaa-researchers-found-wwii-shipwreck-in-alaska-2018-8?r=US&IR=T



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Destruction of the National Museum of Brazil

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/national-museum-of-brazil-devastated-by-massive-fire

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/protesters-decry-neglect-after-brazilian-museum-fire


Perhaps visitor figures should be treated with a pinch of salt…

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/the-wrong-figures


Museum developments


Da Vinci goes digital at the V&A

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...-leonardo-da-vinci-s-notebooks-to-life-online


Museum musings


Short article on the WA Naval Historical Display Australia

http://news.navy.gov.au/en/Sep2018/Community/4796#.W5I73jG0V9A


Statue–toppling reaches Canada

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/canada-addresses-its-monumental-problem


Conservation corner


Spain does it again

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...n-garish-robes-in-botched-spanish-restoration


Objects


Basket hiltedsword used at Stirling Bridge (perhaps!) sold

https://www.forces.net/news/sword-used-wars-scottish-independence-sold-auction


Exhibitions


HMS London in Southend

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/16687108.shipwrecked-cannon-takes-centre-stage/


Magic in Oxford

http://artdaily.com/news/107308/The...ating-cultural-phenomenon--Magic#.W4-QZjG0V9A


1918 in Paris

http://www.musee-armee.fr/programmation/expositions/detail/1918-armistices.html


Tintoretto in Venice

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/tintoretto-s-500th-takes-over-venice


Books of Hours in Montreal

http://artdaily.com/news/107317/Exh...th-century-in-Quebec-collections#.W4-QujG0V9A


Renaissancecourt at the Getty

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/08...at-the-renaissance-court-begins-at-the-getty/

http://artdaily.com/news/107227/The...--Life-at-the-Renaissance-Court-#.W4UG8zG0V9A


WW2 women at International Museum of World War II https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/ansel-adams-s-wartime-women


Books


Neil Grant: The Luger

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/military-history/upcoming-books/available-this-month/the-luger


Edited James Davey: Tudor and Stuart Seafarers; The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485-1707

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tudor-and-stuart-seafarers-9781472956767/


Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe, Glyn Williams: Pacific Exploration;

Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pacific-exploration-9781472957733/


RAF 100 - The Official Story

https://www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/books-media/raf-100-1918-2018-the-official-story-


Online books


Star Carr and its landscape and natural history

https://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/10.22599/book1/

https://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/10.22599/book2/


Article on ceramic grenades from Ingolstadt

https://www.academia.edu/35146728/Franzkowiak_Wenzel_Abstract_2016

https://www.academia.edu/31775145/E...wöhnlicher_Keramikgranatenfund_aus_Ingolstadt



Popular culture


Making art from war-damaged artefacts

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...-project-between-iraq-and-kurdistan-in-the-uk


Japanese artist in Paris’sMusée de la Chasse

http://artdaily.com/news/107310/Mus-e-de-la-Chasse-et-de-la-Nature-opens-a-solo-exhibition-dedicated-to-Kohei-Nawa#.Whttps://manga.tokyo/interview/exclu...e-thousand-musketeers-producer-takumi-kohama/


Trebuchets get a starring role in new film on Robert the Bruce

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/09/movie-review-outlaw-king/



Events


Conferences


ICOMAM in Slovenia

http://network.icom.museum/icomam/news/http://www.medievalists.net/2018/07/call-for-papers-medieval-equestrian-history-imc-2019/


Material Culture of War

http://deremilitari.org/2018/07/cfp-material-culture-of-war-imc-leeds-2019/


Sales, fairs and auctions


13 October London

London Antique Arms fair

http://www.antiquearmsfairsltd.co.uk/


Highlights from Hermann Historica’s autumn sale

https://www.hermann-historica.de/en



Websites and downloads


Celebrating the Three Hundred


The Persian wars and the Three hundred

https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Thucydides%22+OR+%22Θουκυδίδης%22+OR+%22Thoukudídēs%22%29


Aeschylus and the Persians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persians


300 Graphic novel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(comics)

https://getcomics.info/other-comics/300/


1066 etc

The Hippodrome,

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/08...ial-practices-in-the-hippodrome-10th-century/


Finally


This fortnight I tweeted pictures from recent jaunts

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe


Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –10 September 2018


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